National study of US emergency department visits for attempted suicide and self-inflicted injury, 1997-2001

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 369-375

  Doshi, Arpi ^a,c   Boudreaux, Edwin D ^b   Wang, Nan ^c   Pelletier, Andrea J ^c   Camargo Jr , Carlos A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; TRANQUILIZER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEPRESSION; DRUG INTOXICATION; EMERGENCY WARD; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ASPHYXIA; BODY PIERCING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; POISONING; SEASONS; SELF MUTILATION; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 25444508948     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.04.018     Document Type: Article

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